An album of space images—including a poignant shot of a blacked-out North Korea—tell this month’s tale of our place in the cosmos.
NASA
Climate Research Satellite Blazes Into Space
It’s the most sophisticated satellite of its kind
Watch the Great Lakes Freeze Over
Time lapse satellite imagery shows the Great Lakes icing over in one of the coldest winters in memory
Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede Like You’ve Never Seen It Before
Jupiter’s Ganymede gets its own map
2 Tiny Satellites Float in the Empty Vastness of Space
CubeSats are small satellites that help researchers collect data
Curiosity Rover Takes Its First Pic of Earth From Mars
It’s just a Pale Blue Dot, as Carl Sagan would say
Window on Infinity: Winter Pictures from Icy Space
The moon blocks the sun, some new rockets get a workout and a tarantula lives on the other side of the universe. The cosmos never fail to thrill.
Breathaking Panoramas and Mosaics From Opportunity’s Decade on Mars
Ten years after bouncing down on the Martian surface, a golf-cart-sized rover is still hard at work
The Asteroid That Thought It Was a Comet
The difference between an asteroid and a comet was always thought fixed—but now a new paper says the two celestial bodies may be more similar than we thought
Snowpocalypse or Not, 2013 Was One of the Warmest Years on Record
Amid a polar winter in much of the U.S., a new report reinforces the long-term trend of global warming—and sets the stage for an even hotter 2014